Sevier River

American  

1. a river in SW Utah, flowing N and W to the intermittent Sevier Lake. 325 miles (523 km) long.

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Example Sentences

The smokestack at Intermountain Power Plant looms mightily over rural Utah, belching steam and pollution across a landscape of alfalfa fields and desert shrub near the banks of the Sevier River.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2019

All northern specimens are from the drainages of Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake, but these specimens from Sevier County are from the Sevier River Drainage.

From Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah by Durrant, Stephen D.

Warrants were issued for their arrest, and after a vigorous search Lee and Dame were captured, Lee having been discovered in a hog-pen at a small settlement on the Sevier River.

From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Inman, Henry

The Sevier River Valley separates the ranges ascribed to these two forms.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.

Kimball left a part of his command at Thistle Valley to hold the fort at that place, while he went to intercept the Indians on the Sevier River.

From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Whitney, Orson F.